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...head-to-toe snow print wearing a delicate collar of cherry blossoms nodding on long, slender stems. Then, to the melancholy strains of a live string orchestra, others follow in puffed coats so intricately puckered and gathered that models look encased in origami cocoons. The collection, the fourth by Issey Miyake's heir apparent Naoki Takizawa, creates an effect so mesmerizing that, for a moment, even the most hard-nosed store buyers forget niggling practicalities like what happens if you sit while furled in those brilliantly colored coats? "It was so beautiful, it made everyone cry," Susan Koller, fashion editor...
...CRITICS LOVE IT This is elevated soap opera filmed with patience and subtlety. A Taipei family tiptoes individually and together to the precipice of crisis: a father whose business needs a new-media fix from a Japanese swami (the marvelous Issey Ogata), a mother who seeks emotional solace in a Buddhist retreat, plus other hearts breaking from romantic despair or breaking down from old age. Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view...
...discount chain commissioned the architect to create a line of housewares after working with him on the restoration of the Washington Monument, which it's partly funding. He brought forth such potential budget wedding gifts as a toaster, kitchen utensils, a patio set and an ice bucket. Next: Issey Miyake redoes the Big Gulp for 7-Eleven...
...what else, besides crude puns, does the man of the '90s want? As masculine tastes have evolved from Old Spice to Tiffany for Men and L'Eau d'Issey Pour L'Homme (to name but two of the 10 fragrances advertised in the current GQ), men's magazines have kept pace--so much so that in certain respects, they are becoming hard to distinguish from women's magazines. LOSE THE FAT IN 21 DAYS...THE EASIEST WAY TO LOOK BETTER...POWERFUL LEGS...67 NUTRITION TIPS are some of the cover lines from the June Men's Health, the decade...
...designers. Perhaps that's why in Paris last week, fashion's famous let their wilder ideas go to models' heads. At Christian Dior, Oriental wigs covered up the famous tresses of the likes of CINDY CRAWFORD (far left). Givenchy stylists put others in hedge-like mop tops. Issey Miyake seemed to be aiming for the postmodern haystack, while KATE MOSS'S wedge (second from left) almost distracted from Chanel's most unbusinesslike bikini-and-woolen-suit ensemble...